*1 If these are adaptations from songs the negroes have caught
from the whites, their origin is very remote. I have transcrihed
them literally, and I regard them as in the highest degree
characteristic.

2.A PLANTION SERENADE

DE ole bee make de honey-comb,
De young bee make de honey,
De niggers make de cotton en co'n,
En de w'ite folks gits de money.

De raccoon he's a cu'us man,
He never walk twel dark,
En nuthin' never 'sturbs his mine,
Twel he hear ole Bringer bark.